Riches are for spending.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Opportunity makes a thief.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
A hen is only a egg’s way of making another egg.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
